I saved the entire sect by playing idly by letting things fall apart.

"..."

Yun Que's smile vanished instantly, and she whispered, "Senior Brother Mu, are you sure you want to talk to me like that?"

Mu Chongxi remained silent. For some reason, he had an urge to ask her, "What else?"

Perhaps because he had been silent for too long, Yun Que could only forcefully suppress her dissatisfaction with his perfunctory attitude and change the subject: "I heard that your sect recently took in a junior sister?"

The Moon Purity Sect is very well-informed; they can find out about such things with just a little inquiry.

Mu Chongxi gave a vague answer: "Um, what's wrong?"

Yun Que: "How talented is she?"

"I don't know."

Mu Chongxi's perfunctory manner made Yun Que's expression somewhat embarrassed. After hanging up the jade slip in a huff, she stared at the jade slip in her hand for a moment, sighed softly, and her fingertips turned white as she clenched it, feeling an indescribable unease.

"Senior." After thinking for a moment, she contacted someone and stepped under a relatively safe array. After the other party answered, the girl leaned against the wall, her eyes dark and unfathomable, and asked in a very low voice, "I heard that your sect recently accepted a new disciple?"

"Yes."

Yun Que: "Why... after so many years, are you suddenly taking on disciples again?"

It's all too inexplicable.

"Who knows what Xie Chuxue is thinking?" The thin old man on the other side of the jade slip frowned almost imperceptibly. "You don't need to care about their existence, they'll all die eventually anyway."

Yun Que found his words strange. What did he mean by "everyone has to die"?

But she didn't think much of it and smiled sweetly, "I'm not worried about that, senior."

She was not someone that could be compared to just any Tom, Dick, or Harry.

The old man smiled slightly with satisfaction, nodded, and then said, "You don't need to lower yourself to compare with others." She is the chosen one of Heaven's destiny.

Yun Que smiled and humbly lowered her eyelids, "Senior, you flatter me."

She felt relieved and stopped paying attention to the unusual behavior of Changmingzong and the other two.

With so many admirers around her, she doesn't have the patience to deal with them right now.

……

Looking at the jade slip that had been hung up, Mu Chongxi took a deep breath, feeling somewhat depressed. He knew that Yun Que was not a good man.

Even his junior uncle had repeatedly told him this principle.

He understood the importance of making a decisive decision. Disciples of the Path of Inquiry always followed their own hearts, and their words could sometimes be incredibly hurtful. He could sense that Yun Que seemed quite angry with him, but he couldn't blame him...

He pursed his lips nervously, when suddenly someone patted his shoulder.

"Hi?"

Ye Qiao finally caught up with the person, and with a light step, landed behind him, greeting him with fiery enthusiasm.

"Junior Sister?" Mu Chongxi tilted her head, somewhat surprised.

"You're finally out."

She stayed in the house for a whole month, rarely seen, making it really difficult to catch a glimpse of her.

"I need to talk to you about something. I have a question for you."

Ye Qiao's smile vanished, replaced by a rare seriousness. "Between me and Yun Que from the Yueqing Sect, who would you choose?"

"Huh?" Mu Chongxi was stunned, not expecting her to ask such a question.

Ye Qiao wasn't trying to make things difficult for Mu Chongxi. She needed to assess Yun Que's position in his heart. If Yun Que came to Mu Chongxi for help while being chased, and he insisted on helping her, Ye Qiao would have to consider striking first to knock him unconscious and let him sleep in her territory.

"Why are you asking this?" He was slightly taken aback, feeling a chill run down his back.

"Never mind that, who do you choose?"

Without hesitation, Mu Chongxi replied, "I'd definitely choose you."

After all, he had to protect her and make sure she left this place safely.

Although Mu Chongxi didn't understand why she came here, he would at least protect her until she returned to her world.

"If you encounter any danger, don't run around." She was still a little worried.

Mu Chongxi smiled at her with his hands behind his back, his sword swaying at his waist. His clear and melodious voice sounded exceptionally sincere, "If there is danger, I will naturally not run away. I will protect you first."

Upon hearing this, Ye Qiao looked at him in silence, wondering what had given Mu Chongxi the illusion that she might be so weak that she needed someone to protect her.

Because of her terrible swordsmanship?

However, his thinking is acceptable. At least that way he won't wander off.

"Junior Sister," he hesitated for a moment, "may I ask how you entered our Changming Sect in your world?"

If I remember correctly, their Changming Sect has been unable to recruit disciples for many years.

"I've been an orphan since I was a child." Ye Qiao gave him a general account of the original owner's background and her brief but wonderful experience in the Yueqing Sect. Later, when she talked about how he brought her into the sect, she saw that he was listening attentively, so she explained, "At the time, I thought that those competitions and stuff had nothing to do with me. Sweeping the floor in a major sect was a good way to make a living."

Mu Chongxi was stunned.

Being an inner disciple of the Yueqing Sect means that her spiritual root should be in the middle to lower range. If her spiritual root grade is not up to standard and she is accepted as a personal disciple, she will definitely be ostracized. Mu Chongxi knows very well that those personal disciples like to stick together and occasionally engage in some kind of plastic cooperation.

And the mentor who drags the team down will definitely be disliked.

Mu Chongxi could imagine how those vicious disciples ganged up to bully his kind, innocent, lively, and cheerful junior sister.

His gaze darkened slightly. In her world, she was a pitiful little thing, ridiculed by other disciples and struggling to survive among them. The young man's expression was solemn and earnest: "Don't worry, junior sister, I will protect your smile from now on. I will definitely protect you."

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Junior Sister: ? ? ?

The next chapter will focus on the main plot. After the trial ends, there will be a brief highlight moment for Qiaoqiao, and then it should be pretty much over.